Greek Geometric Pottery
Dipylon Vase (Geometric pottery), a grave marker from Athens. This vase is about six feet tall! Archaic period pottery Gradually the Sub-Mycenaean pottery of the Greek Dark Ages developed into [...]
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Salt caravans in Africa and China
A salt caravan across the Sahara Desert By 252 BC, a Chinese governor named Li Bing also figured out how to mine salt. People dug deep pits down to where [...]
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What is marble? History of Art
What is marble? A Cycladic figurine from Ancient Greece in marble, once realistically painted. What is marble made out of? Marble is metamorphic limestone . That is, marble is a metamorphic rock [...]
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Salt Caravans
Han Dynasty Chinese tile showing people mining salt underground and then processing it. See the bamboo pipe? Mining salt in antiquity The salt trade, already important in the Bronze Age, [...]
